Fall is hands down my favourite season, I grew up in rural rural Alberta, where Winter was too cold to do anything, Spring was nothing but wet socks, and Summer was very lonely because my family moved every July. September always marked the start of a new school year, new pens and notebooks, new clothes, […]
As a psychologist, I’m no stranger to the relatively new concept of positive psychology. The focus of psychology until this movement was on disease and hardship. What made people different? Positive psychology focuses on what makes people happy. This is how we know that one of the best ways to increase job satisfaction is decreasing […]
Hi! I’m Emma. Welcome to Coffee & Dragons, a place where I share my perspective on mental health, self-care, University life, graduate school, work-life balance, and more. I am about to graduate from the University of Victoria with a bachelor’s in Biology and Psychology and start my graduate training in Neuroscience where I hope to […]
Coffee with a Splash of Dragons 